Monday, August 11, 2008

Thugs in Our Parliament

It's been clear from the beginning that the Conservative Party, from the top down, has no problem in pushing their weight around.

Anyone who watched the Ethics Committee meeting this morning expecting to see examples of that, wouldn't have been disappointed.

It started with the uninvited arrival of the charmer staring at you here, Doug Finley. Mr. Finely of course is the behind most of the nonsense we see the party carry out, including of course meeting with Chuck Cadman. Well, he certainly led his group by example today. Rather than appearing on Wednesday when he was asked to, he arrived today. His lawyer had contacted the committee to ask if this was acceptable, but the committee did not respond. He showed up anyway and expected to be accommodated.

After much wrangling, countless Points of Order by the Con's on why it was imperative that Finely be heard today, a vote was taken and it was ruled that Finely would not be heard, so he was asked to leave. He just sat there and refused to go.

Imagine the arrogance that takes. Consider the lack of respect for parliament it exhibits and recognise that the entire party shares this mentality.

What was so telling and humorous in a sense, is that by the Con's proceeding the way they did, they blew their own case. Before the meeting started Szabo had actually said that though it was unusual, if there was time after the other witnesses had been heard, they could hear from Finely. I guess the Con's weren't listening though because they began making their points of order, completely ignoring that fact.

So after being asked to leave Finely sat there for about 5 minutes until he was escorted out by security. Astonishing.

The rest of the meeting was no better in terms of decorum, but some pretty interesting detail came out that further clarifies just how this scheme took place and just how underhanded it was. Things like the party ordering some candidates to participate, to the point that they pulled one person, Ms. Fortier after the election had started because she refused to go along with it.

No invoices from the ad agency were seen by riding's and they did receive invoices from the CPC. They were not allowed to use the money as they wished and had to agree ahead of the transfer that they would simply wire it back to the party because it was for a National ad buy.

Anyway, the Committee is back at 1400hrs and I expect more of the same.

In my view, this stuff should be required viewing for all Canadians. When you see the Con's as they really are, I truly cannot understand how anyone could vote for such people.

I suppose having the clips on YouTube would likely be a double-edged sword. Not only would you witness the dim, thuggish Conservative behaviour, but you will also have to bear the ludicrous display of the entire system at play. It's not a pretty sight and could very well scare people away from participation all together.

Agree with you there. Plenty for ads.I'm just blown away by the audacity of the CONs. Their attitudes & everything else. That they think they can continue to act like this & not get called on it is amazing. The worm is turning, so to speak & it won't be pretty for them.

As someone said on Kady's blog if the committee let him be a witness then & there they would have made an "exception" & then the CONs would be trying to make exceptions for every witness, & other things, after that & could have tied up the committee & nothing would have gotten done.

I think that's part of it. And yes, I think he wanted to lay out all kinds of reasons to make other testimony irrelevant like you said.

The arrogance of sitting there & refusing to leave is the height of "I can do what I want, I rule"!

CPAC repeats these meetings - you can get the schedules on their website. I think there's a repeat tonight.

Some BT's think it was horrible to throw Finlay out....they are so stupid it makes me shake. They also attack Szabo - like he's weak. I'd say he had a lot of patience and stamina. I'm not a violent person by any means, but I sure as hell would find it hard not to want to go over and punch one of them in the face. Szabo deserves big time credit for what he's had to put up with.

Finlay looks like a person that drinks too much - he has the bloat and colouring about him.

They've all got their shots in a knot over some Liberal candidate in Atlantic Canada that suggested his opponent was possibly too old to run (that's not quite what he said, but that's how it's being spun). Yawn.

Senior Puppeteer Finley and con artist parrots Goodyear, Tilson, Del Mastro et. al … are committing the most heinous of crimes … that of DELIBERATELY MISLEADING Canadian Taxpayers (Voters) … not once, not twice, not by accident, but continuously & repeatedly.

Their conduct is no different from the conduct of someone who would willingly set out to perpetrate a Fraud, Scam and / or Swindle on Canadians.

The bluster, bravado & subterfuge of Goodyear, Tilson, Del Mastro et al is all an act and pure contrivance as they continue to employ some half-truth at best and what they know to be non-truth comments for the most part, repeating them over & over & over like they’re seriously into performing as all star mind control propagandists.

As an example, one of the non-truths they continue to throw around is that Elections Canada is playing favorites in allowing former Liberal leadership candidates to not repay their “illegal” overdue loans, which the con artists know is not factual, not accurate and not correct. They employ many more non-truths.

And whose behind the curtain … why it’s none other than Head Puppeteer Steve YO Harper, fully aware of and condoning this deplorable, shrill, mean-spirited and dysfunctional behaviour.

They've all got their shots in a knot over some Liberal candidate in Atlantic Canada..

Really? It hardly made a ripple over on the G&M. Eleven comments and two of them mine. Not much of an issue I'm afraid. I guess when the government you are in support of is in the midst of having its fraudulent election activities exposed you'll grasp at anything.